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Top fad diets and how to spot one

Looking to shed a few pounds? Ready to tackle a new diet? Have you thought about going low-carb or low-cal? Check out this list from Buzzle.com with the Top Fad Diets.

The Lemonade Diet: This diet involves a mixture of lemon, water, maple syrup and cayenne pepper. To follow this diet, you must stay away from solid food. Buzzle.com states you will need to drink 6-12 glasses of the lemonade mixture a day.

The Atkins Diet: this diet restricts the amount of carbohydrates you eat. The Atkins Diet recommends you eat foods high in protein and fat. In the book, Dr Atkins' New Diet Revolution, Atkins said the low-carb diet produces a "metabolic advantage," causing Atkins dieters to burn more calories. The long-term weight loss effects for this diet have been highly debated.

The 3-Hour Diet: this diet is focused not on what you eat, but when you eat. The 3-hour diet shows that if more than 3 hours passes between meals, your body will go into starvation mode negatively affecting your metabolism. The diet recommends you eat smaller meals every 3 hours.

The Cabbage Soup Diet: this is a seven day meal plan aimed at quick weight loss.

The Cabbage Soup Diet: proponents of the diet say the results are short-term, quick weight loss. This requires you to eat as much low-cal cabbage soup as you want. It also allows certain fruits and vegetables that can eaten with the soup. Beware - the soup lacks essential nutrients and should not be be continued for long periods of time.

The Grapefruit Diet: this diet is based on the belief there's a particular enzyme in grapefruit which acts as a natural 'fat-burner.' You are required to eat grapefruit or drink grapefruit juice with every meal. The grapefruit diet lasts between 10 - 15 days.

The Grape Diet: this diet requires you to only eat grapes and drink large amounts of water. The catch is, while on the diet, you can not drink water within an hour after eating grapes. According to buzzle.com this will "dilute the strength of the natural chemicals in the grapes."

If you are unsure if a diet is a "fad diet" here a few tips to help decide.

The diet promises rapid weight loss. A very low calorie diet causes the body to dump water. Most, if not all, of the quick weight loss is just water.

The menu is limited to only one food group such as only fruits or only pasta.

The diet is "Doctor Endorsed". Do your own research on any diet plan.

The claims sound to good to be true - you can lose weight while you sleep.

The diet requires you to skip meals.

The diet makes you completely cut out fat, sugar, or carbs.

We hope you have enjoyed this review of fad diets and how to spot one.

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